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Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1887-02-24
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Senator Kenna, of West Virginia,
bears striking resemblance to the late
Stephen A. Douglas
Roscoe Conkling says: al have
never loobed upon the face of the
lawyer whom believe would sell out
his client. IN. 7. Times.
Miss Kate Field has realized a fort
une of 100000 out of telephone stock,
besides large investments in Washing
ton real te.--Chicago Journal.
President Arthur's first work for
money was to write the life of tenn
perance lecture~~-t Lansingburg, N.
Y, named Hamilton. He received
twenty-five dollars for it.-Troy Times
AT Baptist church festival in New
Haven the other evening Mrs. Nancy
Gorham, who was ninety-onc years old
that day, sang a song of her childhood
in most agreeable and vivacious man
ner-New Haven Register.
Mr.. S. II. Puleston, the millionaire
member of Parliament, who proposes
to purchase $2,O00,0 600 worth of Penn
sylvania coal lands, was twenty years
ago reporter on a small paper at Pitts
ton, Pittsburgh Post.
Henry M. Stanley is remarkable
for a broad head, very thick through
the cheek bones. His hair is still dark
and thick, covering the temples. lie
is of middle size, weighing about one
hundred and eighty pounds. He looks
like a man of about fifty years OF age.
N. Y. Tribune.
-Boston's chief literary club is the
one called St. Bodolph. 1t was organ
lied In 1880, with Francis Parkman,
the historian, as president. He served
until one year ago, when he resigned,
and was succeeded by General Francis
Walker. The entrance fee is small, but
it is quite an exclusive institution
Boston Herald.
Congressman Singleton, of Missis-
sippi, chairman of the House Commit
tee on the Library, appointed Miss
Mary Johnston as clerk of his commit
tee. Miss Johnston is the first woman
to receive an appointment to any office
under Congress, and is happy in know
ing that she will be paid at the rate of
six dollars per day Washington
Critic.
Mark Twain said to friend the
other day that he did not like to come
to New York with his wife. 'She is
very anxious to have every one think
she dresses like a New Yorker" he
said, "and yet whenever she buys any
thing in store in this city the clerk is
sure to ask: What hotel shall l send
this to, ma amp IN 7. Nail.
In writing to the Banner you
needn't waste paper trying to comply
with the rule about writing only on
one side. That rule was intended for
big dailies, where copy has to be di-
vided among several printers. The
Banner has only one printer, so you
can write on all sides and then cross
plow it if you wish.-Killeen (4er.)
Banner.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1887-02-24
GREEN BUT SMART.
How a Yankee Boy Secured Position In
New York Store.

Years ago, into wholesale grocery
store in this city, walked n tall, muscu
lar-looking man, evidently fresh
conner from some backwoods town in
Maine or New Hampshire. Accosting
the first person he met, who happened
TO be the merchant himself, he asked:
"You don't want to hire man in
your store, do youP"
"Well," said the merchant, II don't
know. What can you doP"
"Do?" said the man. II rather guess
l can turn my hand to almost any thing.
What do you want donep'
"Well, ifI were to hire man, il
would be one who could lift well-a
strong, wiry fellow; one, for instance,
that could shoulder sack of coffee like
that yonder, and carry it across the
store, and never lay it down."
"There now, Cap'n," said the coun.
tryman, ''that's just me, I can lift any
thing | can hitch to. You can't suit me
better. What will you give man that
can suit you?"
"rll tell you," said the merchant.
"If you shoulder that sack of coffee,
and carry it across the store twice,
and never lay it down, I will hire you
for year at hundred dollars q
month. Z"
"Doner' said the stranger.
And by this time every clerk in the
store had gathered around, and was
waiting to join in the laugh against the
man, who, walking up to the sack,
threw it across his shoulder with perfect
ease, as it was not extremely heavy,
and, walking with it twice across the
floor, went quietly to large hook
which was fastened to the wall, and
hanging it up, turned to the merchant
and said:
"There, now! it may hang there till
doomsday; l shall never lay it down.
What shall / go about, misterP just give
me plenty to do, and hundred dollars
month, and it's all right"
The clerks broke into laugh; but
the merchant, discomfited yet salts
fed, kept his agreement; and to-day the
green countryman is the senior partner
in the firm, and worth million dollars
-Ballou'S MonthV.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1887-02-24
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

The late Mrs. Caroline A. Wood,
of Cambridge, Mass, left $4,000 to
Wellesley College and $4,000 to Bates
College.
The faculty of Rutgers College,
New Brunswick, N. j., has started a
crusade against alleged obscene theat-
rical posters.
The Gospel is preached in the
United States by members of the
Lutheran Church in thirteen different
languages.--M. Y Witness.
The Springfield (Mass.) School for
Christian Workers has twenty-one new
students. About twenty Of its last
years students are now engaged as
secretaries of Y. M. G.. Associ ations. -
Springfield Union.
Seven hundred retail grocers OF
Brooklyn, who compose an association,
and employ about two thousand five
hundred clerks, started a free hight
school for their employees, mostly Gers
man, and without special business
training. Much good is done, and
three more schools will be started
Brooklyn Union.
For twenty-sevcn years past an eff
fort has been made in London every
winter to hold special religious serv-
ices in theaters, halls and mission
rooms. The mission is undenomina-
tional, and maintains its place as the
first and most successful experiment to
get at the people outside of the or
dinary places of public worship.
There are in this city 293 evangel-
ical pastors, distributed among the de-
nominations as follows: Baptist, "a;
Congregational, 6; Lutheran, %; Meth
odist, SO; Moravian, q Presbyterian,
64; Episcopilean, "A; Reformed Epis-
copal, /; Reformed Dutch), 26, and
Independent, II. The Protestant evan
gelical ministers in active service as
editors, teachers, professors and oc-
casional supplies will double the num-
bern T. Christian at Work.
From his field in Texas mission
ary revisited his early home among the
mountains of Virginia. 1t was the
time when they were accustomed to
close their schools for the winter. He
told them he was "not good at the
burial service of Sunday-schools, but
was better at their resurrection. Keep
your Sunday-school open in the winter.
The scholars will come if the oppor-
tunity is given. Try it.-Christian at
Work.
South Hadley Seminary, one of
the earliest of the collegiate institu-
tions for women in this country, and
one which has done incalculable serv-
ice in promoting Christian education,
both here and abroad, by its work, is
preparing to hold a semi-centennial
next summer. All the graduates of
the seminary and their friends are in
vited to be present. A great tent is to
be put up for the exercises, and
another for restaurant purposes. -BoS-
ton Journal.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1887-02-24

gland may thus claim to have monop-
oily, we find Churchyard, Deadman,
Scamp, Swindler, Gotobed, Slaughter,
Startup, Twentyman, Allbones, Little
proud, Fudge, Puddle and Wildblood.
The most prevalent surnames in Scot
land, according to Mr.. George Seton,
are Smith, the name of one person in
every sixty-nine; Macdonald, one in
seventy-eight; Brown, one in eighty
nine; Robertson, one in ninety-one;
Campbell, one in ninety-two; Thomp-
son, one in ninety-five, and Stewart,
one in ninety-eight. "One person in
every twelve in Scotland" says Mr..
Seton, twill answer to one or 9TH
er of these seven names" The
Smiths in England and Wales are
calculated to be about one in every sew
enty-three of the population. If we
take three common names of Smith,
Jones and Williams, one person in
twenty-eight will answer to one or
other of them. Life with a good num-
Der is struggle at the best. and the
success that attends us is influenced
more than people sometimes think by
the names we bear. Even the sound of
name is of consequence. Harsh
names," says Isaac Disraeli, "will
have, in spite of all our philosophy,
painful and ludicrous effect on our
ears and our associations. 1t is vexa-
tious that the softness of delicious
vowels or the ruggedness of inexorable
consonants should at all be connected
with mans happiness, or even have
an influence on his fortunes. Some
names, indeed, are almost fatal to sue
cess; they simply suggest jokes and en-
courage familiarity A man has no
hesitation in proving "by thumps upon
your back how he esteems your merit"
if You are called Twigger, or Tapp, or
Trundle, or Littleboy, but he would
hardly venture on it were you more
aristocratic Montgomery, or Gas
coigne. For man to inherit an
absurd or insignificant name is to
have stone tied round his neck
in childhood to keep him all his life in
the depths of obscurity 1t would be diff
cult to find a famous character in lit
erature, or any thing else, with a sur
name at least approaching in character
to, say, Toothaches, or Bang, or Baby.
Who could fancy Squib or Cable
visited at any time by the inspirations
of genius? John Wilkes expressed this
idea once in conversation with DR..
johnson. They were speaking of Elk
anah Settle, the last of the city poets.
"There is something in names," said
Wilkes, (which one can not help feel
ing. Now Elkanah Settle sounds so
queer; who can expect much from that
namep We should have no hesitation
to give it for John Dryden in prefer
ence to Elkanah Settle from the names
only, without knowing their different
merits" Considerations such as these,
not to speak of testamentry injunctions
and conditions attached to deeds of en-
tail, have induced people from time to
time to change their names. The world
being as it is, and mans instinct lead
ing him to fasten on and worry the
ridiculous, it is often sensible pro-
ceeding. Cuthbert is made to take the
place of Cuddy; McAlpine of Halfpen-
ny; Belcome of Bullock; De Winton of
wilkins, and Ephraim Bug is trans
formed into the aristocratic Howard.
Leisure Hours,
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1887-02-24
HASTY RETREAT.
How n Live Boston Broker Got Ahead of
Life-Insurance Agent.

HOW Live Boston Broker Got Ahead OF
Life-Insurance Agent.
Teddy Sprint, one of the bright
brokers of State street, had just run
over to the Office from "the board" for
a breathing spell the other day when
there entered to him the mammoth
life-insurance agent of the period-the
gentleman who only takes $4,000 and
100000 risks.
Imparting this information to Teddy,
and further saying that Mr.. Sprint had
"been recommended" to him by the
eminent banker Bullion, he was about
to continue when Teddy vivaciously re-
marked:
"Bless you, my boy, Pm dealer in
stocks and bonds, and when one of
these insurance companies buys lot of
securities of me, why ! take some in
surance."
The bland agent glanced loftily at
the blackboard and said:
II sometimes take flyer myself
Suppose you buy hundred N. Y. &
N. +. for me, and put stop order on
it at co."
The broker rapidly wrote the neces-
sary telegram and sent it flashing to
New York, and the insurance agent
strolled out to let his order have its
due effect on Teddy.
Meanwhile New York and New Eng
land moved up to 65, slipped down to
60, wiped out Mr.. Insurance Man, and
then walked up to 63, and quivered
there among the fractions, and when
the big Injun of insurance dropped in
again he was handed his account,
which showed him a net loss of $525.
His jaw dropped little, but he inn
mediately tackled Teddy on the $780,
600 policy racket, bound to hedge his
loss. just as he had started, Leath-
erbee, the lumberman, dropped in, and
taking in the situation at once, cheer
fully asked:
"Oh! Teddy, how is your lung
trouble?n
The insurance man gasped, and,
Teddy, with Mt Auburn cough, re-
sponded:
"Oh, l think I am not much worse.
The old man was not more than thirty
eight, you know, when he was taken"
Here the insurer leaned against a
desk for support, and Teddy continued:
"If it was not for this Internal in
flammatory rheumatism and the vari-
eose veins of my left leg, shouldn't
mind the cough"
The perspiration had been gathering
in large drops on the insurance mans
forehead during these remarks, and
when Teddy coughed again in his hand
kerchief, into which he had spilled a
little red ink, the alarmed agent, with
muttered excuse, fairly fled from the
office.
"What a hurry he was in," said
Teddy, as he looked blandly through
his eyeglasses; "I meant to have asked
him to call around and canvass my
father-in-law. " Boston Commercial
BulletiR.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1887-02-24
VOL. III.-NO. s.
IN SCHOOL.


There is a school with q teacher stern.
With lessons long and hard TO learn
A school that is found in every cline.
And that keeps in session all the time,
Its open doors are free to all,
The black and white, the great and small.
And all must go, the bad and good,
For none could shirk it, II they would
And all must study with weary pain
Old, old lessons over again.
Lessons OF sorrow, OF loss and care,
Ofhopeless waiting and despair.
And forever we can not choose but look.
Till death shall close lifes lesson book.
And we see at last. with all made plain,
That our weary tasks were not in vain.
Doubtless we give some plying thought
To those who stand with the strife un.
fought;
To those who lift with present pain
Our old, old crosses over again
Who strive as we strove, for gold and pelf
Who learn as we learned, each for himself.
For the school shall be taught in the long
years hence
BY the same old dame. Experience.
q A. Jeicett, In Good Cheer,
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1887-02-24

AT the last Trinity Ordination"
in England FIVE Hebrew Christians
were ordained to the ministry of the
Church of England. all of whom had
been brought to n knowledge of Christ
by missionaries of the London Society
for promoting Christianity among the
Jews,
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1887-02-24

In all parts of the mission field
there are to-day not less than $4,000
schools of different grades. attended
by from 100000 to 100000 scholars.
There are about $4,000 native helpers.
of whom the most are teachers, and
there are LOO ordained pastors and
evangelists, whose support for the
most part comes from the people they
serve. Chicago Standard.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1887-02-24

-Guinea fowls are excellent sem
tinels against hawks. eats and other
''yarmints. ~ !. Herald
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-08-29
U. S. S. VANDALIA.
Her Arrival at this Port from c"Irao

The L. 5. S. Vandalia arrived off port
Saturday evening thirty-seven days from
Callao. She left the latter place July
21st and came all the way under sail
with the exception of two days, one IN
the doldrums the other off this port.
Experienced fine weather all the way.
The Vandalia is a second-class wooden
vessel of 2,10O tons displacement with
engines of l 400 horse power and can at
tain a speed of thirteen knots. She was
built about 1876, and was named after
the old American clipper ship Vandalla
which arrived at Honolulu from Callao
in 1916. Rear Admiral Kimberly who
is on the vessel, Joined the Z. S. Pacific
SQUADRON at Panama in April and took
the Vandalia as his flagship. There is
no band on board. She carries 9 guns,
eight-inch muzzle loading rifle, sixty
FOUNDER breech loading rife and nine
inch smooth bored. There are also two
2Opounder breech saluting guns, 8 gatling
guns, l twelve FOUNDER howitzer and one
three-inch rife. She carries spar tor
pedoes and also steam launch. The
vessel has a complement of 30 men not
including the officers. She will probably
make an extended stay at this port but
as vet nothing definite is known.
AS soon as the Vandalia came to
anchorage outside, H. B. NJ. S. Conquest
saluted the Rear AdmiraPs flag with
thirteen guns. After saluting the Ha-
waiian flag the Vandalia responded to
the Conquest's salute.
Early Sunday morning the Vandalia
came into port and anchored between
the Conquest and Adams. She was
saluted by the shore battery. The fol-
lowing is list of her officers:
Rear Admiral-Lewis A Kimberly.
Captain-Henry L. Howison.
Lieutenants-Joseph w. Carlin, John
c. Wilson, H o. Rittenhouse, Green
lief A. Mermain, Chas. F. Fox, Horace
M. Witzel and Thos. NJ. Brumby.
EnsigD-C. E. Sweeting.
Naval Cadets-George F. Cooper, Jno.
F. Mcmillan and S. B. Winram.
Chief Engineer-Geo. J. Burnap.
Paymaster-Frank II. Arms.
rgeon-zHosra J. Babin.
P. A. Engineer-Alex. B. Bates.
First Lieutenant q. S. NJ. Coco. F.
Elliott.
Assistant Engineers-Jos. M. Pickrell
and Walter NJ Mcfarland.
Gunner-Samuel Cross.
Carpenter-Jos. B. Fletcher
Pay Clerk-Jno. Roche.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-08-29
The Ch1nese In Australia.

General Wong Yung Ho, one of the
Chinese Commissioners in Australia re-
Gently informed deputation from the
Anti-Chinese Society in Sydney that he
had not the slightest intention OF advo-
eating any general immigration scheme
or the formation of syndicates for the
purchase of property in the Colonies
The Chinese, from what he saw, were
much better off in their own country
There was general objection on the
part Of Chinese to leave their homes and
families, but at the time OF the goldfields
prosperity many came to try their luck,
as others did from various parts of the
world. Consul General U. Using re-
ferred to the opium traffic, and declared
that it was Objectionable to the Chinese
generally, and was forced upon them by
the British Government against their
will
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-08-29
Mauritius sugar News.

The latest advices from Mauritius are
dated July 21st, and are as follows:
Respecting the sugar crop, reports show
that the season continues favorable, and it
is now certain that the incoming crop Will
exceed that of last year. The canes on
two or three estates are so far advanced
that the manufacture of sugar thereon has
already commenced: but it is not at pres
ent possible to give a reliable report of the
return yielded. The demand is active for
Bombay. and during the preceding month
important sales have been made at re-
duction of from 20 to 80 cents of rupee on
preceding quotations.
The quantity of sugar IN first hands
amounted at first to about 900 to $4,000
bags, of which 5000 or 6, 900 bales are grey
syrups, Nos. to s, which have been sold
for European and American markets
The remainder are qualities suitable for
the Cape and Australian markets. From
August 1, 1886, to July, 1887, the exports
of sugar to Australia and New Zealand was
81 1856 tons.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-08-29

TIE SUPREME COURT AND THE PRESS.

On Friday last Mr.. Justice Preston
gave written decision in the mandamus
case against the Inspectors of Elections
for Mobiles. AS it affected the rights of
subjects to vote, representative of the
ADVERTISER visited the Supreme Court
on Saturday for the purpose of copying
the decision, when he was referred to
the following order posted up in con-
spicuous place in the Court:
Reporters for the press will in future not
copy decisions of the Court for publication;
but will confne themselves to giving a
short synopsis of the facts of the case and
the result of the decision The decisions
will be published officially in the manner
heretofore established.
BY Order of the Court
In this instance ga short synopsis"
would be of little use. The decision is
an important one, affecting, as we have
said before, the rights of subjects to
vote, and it should have been published
without delay in all the English and
Hawaiian papers. We fully agree With
the following remarks of our evening
contemporary on the subject in it's issue
of Saturday:
The Supreme Court has issued an order
torbidding reporters to copy its decisions,
which are to be officially published. They
are to be permitted to make an abstract of
Court decisions for publication This is
another step in the direction of removing
the Supreme Court from the wholesome
review of public criticism, which was sue
cessfully initiated in the recent contempt
case against the ADVERTISER. BY the ruI-
ing In the contempt case, a newspaper pro-
prietOr is liable to fine and costs if he re-
ports and publishes any Court proceeding
until the final stage has been reached of
ruling by the full Court in banco; and bv
the order in question, publication of such
final ruling is forbidden, so that the public
Will be kept In ignorance of the procedure
OF our Courts of Justice throughout every
stage of case, whether civil or criminal.
This IS a condition of things which does
not exist in any other country professedly
under free institutions, and with all respect
to our Supreme Bench, it is condition of
things which should not exist here 1t is
applying the principle of the Star Chamber
to the administration of law and Justice in
the Courts of this Kingdom and is an at
tack upon popular and personal rights
which would be resented in England or
America if attempted by their Courts
But such an idea, it is safe to say, would
not enter into the heads of the most re-
dictionary judge on the English or Amer.
lean bench
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-08-29
The Kermadec Islands.

The New Zealand 'Herald's' yelling
ton correspondent, writing under date of
August 10th, says:
The Government steamer Stella, Captain
Fairchild, has received orders to proceed
to the Kermadec Islands, and take formal
possession of them as part of Her Majesty S
dominiOns annexed TO the colony of New
Zealand. There is. l understand, one
family living on the principal island, so
that the census of the new territory wi
not be difficult there being no other in
habitants, to enumerate. Captain Fair
child will have the function OF Admiral of
the Fleet" and Plenipotentiary to discharge
at the same time.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-08-29
HoRnnng VS., CooGe.

The following letter appears in the
Sydney Morning Herald" of July 3Oth
To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALp-Sir: Nv
attention has been called to a statement
which has been telegraphed from Auck
land to the Sydney press to the effect that
the Hon. Audley Coote, of Tasmania. had
just succeeded by his personal influence in
securing subsidy of $4,000 for a Pacific
cable, in which he states he is interested
and that he at the same time obtained a
peaceful solution of the recent Hawaiian
revolution, for which he received a ROYAL
decoration from the King.
Some years ago the Hawaiian legislature
passed an Act empowering the Govern
ment to grant a subsidy of $40, 900 per an
mum TO any company which would under
take to connect the Islands With California
by cable. This was measure of obvious
utility and public policy, in which ii is GER
tain Mr.. COote was not consulted.
With respect to the recent political
crisis at Honolulu, I was there during its
acute stage, and was intimately acquainted
with its inner workings, and am, therefore
in position to say that it would be absurd
for any stranger passing through the coun-
try to claim that he solved the important
difficulties which existed at the Hawaiian
Islands.
Mr.. Coote is, believe, Hawaiian Consul
for Tasmania, and in that capacity received
an Order from the King which His Maj
esty frequently confers upon such officials
l have the honor to be, etc,
a. HoFPNUNG.
His Hawaiian Mujesty's Charge DAT
flares at London.
Cambrian Villa, Potts Point, Sydney,
July %, 1887.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-08-29
AdrfrtisfmfnfE,
NOTICE

rs HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE FIRM OF
i Chu On & Co., doing business in honolulu,
consists Of the following named Partners: Wong
Kong Yum. residing in Honolulu: Tam Yen
Chat, Chang Bow San and Lee On shuen, resid-
ing IN China, and that Wong Kong Yum is the
manager and Is alone authorized TO sign the
firm name.
(signed) CHU ON 4 CO.
Honolulu, August 81 1887. 5o2sep1o